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Re: Reddit was down for over two hours

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Post by isugimpy »

JohnJamesRambo wrote: post #143
hu3 wrote: post #109

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Not really a miracle. Reddit software is magnitudes simpler than Facebook. Not to mention the quality is often sub-par. For example, many hate their mobile app with a passion and search field could as well just not exist when I tried.

Their new redesign is so completely awful they have to have an option to “just show the old reddit” in your settings. If they ever take that away I think I’ll just stop using it, it’s that bad.

Serious question: What makes it completely awful? Do you have ideas that might make it a better experience, besides "just use the old UI"?

Re: Reddit was down for over two hours

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Post by coupdetaco »

dymk wrote: post #12

Reddit is the only major social media/aggregator I can think of that actually has to go offline for scheduled maintenance still. I can’t imagine the kind of shitshow it must be internally. Imagine if Facebook or Twitter had to go down regularly for “maintenance”. Heads would roll.

Facebook goes down all the time

Re: Reddit was down for over two hours

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Post by ryanmercer »

mullsork wrote: post #233
Beefin wrote: post #182

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500 employees is still alot. Especially given the technology ecosystem that exists for leverage. The revenue piece is an interesting one because i was an early adopter and remember the revenue struggle. Gold/silver doesn't cut it because it relies on generosity. FB/Twitter are an ads business. Is that really not too lucrative of a field for reddit?

There are ads on Reddit already. I only ever use their website with an, but I get ads on the iOS app. I've been seeing a significant rise in the usage of gold/silver/platinum lately, used heavily for banter on r/soccer (and for rewarding quality content as well.)

>I've been seeing a significant rise in the usage of gold/silver/platinum lately, used heavily for banter on r/soccer (and for rewarding quality content as well.)

Same, but it's because they changed the way gold works. If you have a subscription, for stuff like removing ads and what not, you get coins every month which then allows me to give out several silvers every month or let them pile up to give out a week of gold here and there. I doubt there has been a significant rise in people paying and is likely largely the new coin system.

Re: Reddit was down for over two hours

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Post by ryanmercer »

kalleboo wrote: post #180
opmac wrote: post #174

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I'm not sure how you can say Wikipedia is static, even by comparison: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Statistics

From your link: Wikipedia develops at a rate of over 1.8 edits per second The statistics I can find for Reddit put it at 160 submissions per second[0]. And that's not counting comments or votes. And each vote changes the ordering of submissions and comments. [0] https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/8aek7d/red...

>that's not counting comments or votes

Or 'hide', in every sub I'm active in I hide each new thread after I've decided I am not interested or after I've looked at it so I can quickly scan new stuff.

Then add automoderator removing things for manual approval, approval of threads etc. Gilding, messages, chat etc.

Re: Reddit was down for over two hours

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Post by ryanmercer »

isugimpy wrote: post #261
JohnJamesRambo wrote: post #143

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Their new redesign is so completely awful they have to have an option to “just show the old reddit” in your settings. If they ever take that away I think I’ll just stop using it, it’s that bad.

Serious question: What makes it completely awful? Do you have ideas that might make it a better experience, besides "just use the old UI"?

Everything. Literally everything. It uses a WYSIWYG input which completely breaks old.reddit formatting inputs, it constantly causes confusion as to what comment you are replying to so you get people replying to the wrong person or replying to the main post, it looks cartoony and blatantly obvious you're on a social website if you're trying to reddit on the sly, It doesn't like browser windows that aren't open full screen if you're trying to reddit on the sly, it severely restricts how much information you can have in the sidebar, etc.

Re: Reddit was down for over two hours

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Post by archie2 »

pjc50 wrote: post #244
archie2 wrote: post #94

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Personally, I think the solution is just to give users options to censor others from their perspective instead of just trying to create some utopia that is free from hatred of any kind - which is impossible. Personally, I prefer having these disgusting people out in the open. When they do something horrendous, the paper trail can be long and damning - making it much easier to convict them. These people are usually pr…

Hearts and minds are not fixed. People can be recruited and radicalised. For every one person who'd do this stuff on their own there's a hundred who do it because they think it's popular. > the paper trail can be long and damning - making it much easier to convict them This usually comes out after they've carried out the mass shooting.

Unfortunately, you can't arrest someone that hasn't committed a crime.

Re: Reddit was down for over two hours

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Post by archie2 »

mehhh wrote: post #123
archie2 wrote: post #94

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Personally, I think the solution is just to give users options to censor others from their perspective instead of just trying to create some utopia that is free from hatred of any kind - which is impossible. Personally, I prefer having these disgusting people out in the open. When they do something horrendous, the paper trail can be long and damning - making it much easier to convict them. These people are usually pr…

This creates echo chambers like 4chan, 8chan, pleroma.site, gab.com & /r/The_Donald where likeminded people gather and decide bashing in the heads of LGBTQ+ people like myself is perfectly acceptable, and proceed to act out their hate in my community (Ballard, WA). My fellow trans and gay friends have lived in Seattle without issue for decades, but now Nazis are coming here from rural Washington to attempt to murder…

chans are completely open, uncenssored forums - from either side - not even remotely similar to what I'm advocating for.

I have never once seen on The_Donald, even before their quarantine, any highly voted posts or comments advocating violence. The moderators regularly release transparency reports that show exactly all the things that they remove and their have been plenty of instances of people creating alts to post inflammatory things to get them in trouble. The vast majority of users condemn violence of any kind other than lawful self-defense.

I also see plenty of openly LGBT people on there, and they are just as welcome in the forum as anyone else.

Re: Reddit was down for over two hours

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Post by blaser-waffle »

juststeve wrote: post #255
opmac wrote: post #173

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You've managed to say a lot without really saying anything. You make plenty of baseless assumptions about my background and ambitions... but I'm not even going to try to address my professional experience (or lack thereof) because it doesn't matter, since you're just using it as a straw man to deflect criticism. The facts are as follows: 1. Reddit is one of the highest visited websites in the world. 2. Throughout nea…

so, where is your website?

whataboutism is not a valid reply to the above (fairly legitimate) criticisms

Re: Reddit was down for over two hours

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Post by winternett »

JohnJamesRambo wrote: post #143
hu3 wrote: post #109

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Not really a miracle. Reddit software is magnitudes simpler than Facebook. Not to mention the quality is often sub-par. For example, many hate their mobile app with a passion and search field could as well just not exist when I tried.

Their new redesign is so completely awful they have to have an option to “just show the old reddit” in your settings. If they ever take that away I think I’ll just stop using it, it’s that bad.

If you think that's bad, try using the browser version on mobile... It's full of annoying pop-ups to try to encourage you to use their crappy mobile app. (sadface) :(

Re: Reddit was down for over two hours

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Post by ekianjo »

manigandham wrote: post #193
ekianjo wrote: post #120

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No. you just connect to an always on session like TheLounge and you have an IRC with the features you want. Pretty simple.

This is like the famous comment in the "Show HN: Dropbox" thread that said you could just use rsync/ftp/git instead. Meanwhile Dropbox is now worth over $8B.

Not sure why the value of anything makes my point invalid? I answered there was a simple way for anyone using IRC to keep sessions alive and therefore not miss any message. This is an off the shelf solution, not something you have to build by yourself.
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